Hey all, this may be a stupid question but as I'm an not yet deeply experienced in ESX I'd love some insight from you.
I have a VM which seems to be taking more and more storage and with my poor knowledge of ESX .vmdks I can't understand what's happening.
The VM folder contains the following files;
total 38983360
-rw------- 1 root root 7902068736 Aug 7 10:14 xyz-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 259 Aug 6 23:29 xyz-000001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 9462349824 Aug 7 00:01 xyz_1-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 263 Aug 7 00:00 xyz_1-000001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 10737418240 Jun 4 14:06 xyz_1-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 346 Jun 12 02:22 xyz_1.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 1073741824 Jun 2 14:55 xyz-9f8827c7.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 10737418240 Jun 20 15:12 xyz-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8664 Jun 2 14:22 xyz.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 18814 Jun 20 15:12 xyz-Snapshot77.vmsn
-rw------- 1 root root 344 Jun 12 02:22 xyz.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 1043 Aug 6 23:29 xyz.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1850 Aug 7 09:40 xyz.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 256 Aug 7 09:40 xyz.vmxf
-rw-rr 1 root root 26833 Apr 14 12:36 vmware-1.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 97092 Apr 14 12:36 vmware-2.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 22762 Apr 14 12:36 vmware-3.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 1654418 Jun 2 14:01 vmware-4.log
-rw-rr 1 root root 1960776 Aug 7 09:40 vmware.log
The VM has two disks in it's properties; Disk 1 xyz-000001.vmdk (10GB) and Disk 2 xyz_1-000001.vmdk (10GB). It also has a single snapshot in Snapshot Manager, taken on 20 June 08. The whole folder is about 38GB and I think it should be closer to 30GB.
Do I have an extra snapshot file in there that is not appearing in Snapshot Manager? Do I have the corrent number of .vmdks, deltas and flats?
Thanks for you help.